Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit, only a small fraction of the 1,000 people invited to a breakfast bothered to turn up. The group drew a mere 30 spectators at a gathering in a backyard in Brooklyn. G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock told the Brooklynites: "The average New Yorker pays $800 more in federal income tax today than four years ago. I think that's insane." His audience agreed, but still seemed a bit baffled by the Kemp-Roth 33% solution. As Ann Hickey told the Republicans at a subsequent stop in Upper Darby, Pa.: "I just...
...below street level, and almost all of it is high enough to stand in. In two stretches, however, obstacles restricted tunnel construction and special designs had to be employed. One was the MBTA subway line. Squeezed between the subway tunnel and Massachusetts Ave., the steam tunnel shrinks to a mere 3 1/2 feet in height. Workers must lie prone on a rolling flatbed cart and draw themselves along by means of a rope pulley system. Most maintenance men go above ground to avoid this segment, using the pull-cart only when they must...
...master of the land and other animals, and lives as if he were totally independent from trivial things like ecosystems and food chains. But the simple truth is that man is an animal--albeit a very complex and highly developed one--who is, like all other animals, a mere citizen--not master--of the environment...
...neck. Black magic is here, as well as the redemptive kind, and in explicable happiness can be every bit as astonishing as inexplicable misery. Cheever has never tried more or less than to get this sense of mystery down. At the end of one story, he wonders how mere fiction could "hope to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream." As consistently as any of his contemporaries, Cheever has done just that...
Ever since small-town American families abandoned their farms so they could become appendages to machines in the city--experiencing at the same time the isolation and overshadowing loneliness of the city--this country has found her heroes in professional sports. Where participation in daily physical activity once precluded mere observations, most Americans today experience the joy of movement through the vicarious thrill. Many become heroes only in their hopes and dreams...